"You canâ€™t shine if you donâ€™t burn."

-- Kevin Ayers

#Shining Quotes

“Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.”
“I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.”
“Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it's over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It's just show after show after show, and you're missing your family and they feel really far away. You don't go to sleep. You work for a month.”
“Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.”
“An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.”
“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.”
“It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.”

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